Iron Chef/Platinum Baker Night

Absolute insanity. That is the only phrase I can describe what happened last night at the Champions club I am the director of. The Iron Chef/Platinum Baker competition was a complete circus and I was reveling in the energy that the competition brought to the club last night. The pinnacle of the night was the macaroni salad competition where four of the top clubbers had to make their salads live in front of a cheering (at times absolutely frantic) crowd. Chants of "Luke! Luke! Luke!" and "Go! Go! Go!" and "Iron Chef! Iron Chef! Iron Chef!" filled the room as the four battled it out for macaroni salad supremacy.

It was a lot of work (we had to call in reinforcements for judging and food preparation) and was one of the more expensive special events we put on (I am not shy about spending money) but we'll do it again, Lord willing. There was great participation from the clubbers as there were a total of 25 dishes that were prepared and had to be judged to determine the clubbers that were to compete live for the macaroni salad so that made me happy and proud. We even had some new clubbers there that enjoyed the night as well. Hopefully they'll be back.

It worked out about as well as it could have for a first-time event of this magnitude and I am happy we did it. There will always be the "what-ifs" and the "oh we should have done it that ways" we'll sort through, but it worked out great.

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